London Independent Photography celebrates the capital's finest snappers

By Daniel Bettridge

Friday, 23 October 2009

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Eye-catching images from both amateur and professional photographers alike are currently being showcased at London Independent Photography’s 21st Annual Exhibition, which opened on Monday, and runs until the 31 October. The work represents the best in show from the LIP’s membership.

The work on display was chosen by independent selectors Magda Keaney (Curator Photography, National Portrait Gallery) and Susanna Brown (Curator Photography, V&A Museum) and showcases the creativity and quality of work coming out of London's photographic community.

London Independent Photography is a community organisation for amateur and professional photographers with more than 450 members. Its activities are designed to bring together photographers with different interests and levels of expertise who wish to develop their personal approach to photography, improve their skills and gain recognition for their work. Many members have exhibited widely and held solo exhibitions, but gather together to show their individual approaches to photography in an annual group show in London.

The exhibition runs until the 31st October 2009 in Cottons Atrium, Tooley Street, London Bridge and opens daily between 7.00am-9.00pm with free admission. A catalogue of all of the work in the exhibition is available online at www.blurb.com.

London Independent Photography, 21st Annual Exhibition, Cottons Atrium, Tooley Street SE1 2QE. Runs October 19-31, 2009. www.londonphotography.org.uk

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Ummm........ why?

contrastcolour wrote:

Monday, 26 October 2009 at 12:31 pm (UTC)

A couple of fairly decent shots. The rest, utter garbage. Since when did we start putting up mediocre holiday snaps on a national newspaper?

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The capital's FINEST snappers?

lucid1984 wrote:

Monday, 26 October 2009 at 05:28 pm (UTC)

Really?!

If that's true, I've got some shots on my phone that'd turn your mind inside out.

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Good show

flutteringwest wrote:

Tuesday, 27 October 2009 at 07:37 am (UTC)

Comments possibly by bitter people who can't get out of their desk chairs long enough to go and see the show. I went to view it and there was an excellent range of work. Real framed prints do look better than what you see on your computer screen! Kudos for giving coverage to photographic work that isn't ubiquitous and mainstream...

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Re: Good show

contrastcolour wrote:

Tuesday, 27 October 2009 at 12:19 pm (UTC)

Well, if those photos looked reasonable in person rather than on a screen, then there are millions and millions more images available on the web which would look even better then...

I got to the last image in this selection and almost thought it was all a big joke. A hotel with some boarded up windows? Or was I supposed to be overawed by the "vacancies" sign coupled with the boarded windows?

Seriously... pathetic efforts...

(And yes, I can do better.)

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Re: Good show

jack_0_heath wrote:

Tuesday, 27 October 2009 at 07:20 pm (UTC)

Well if you can do better than please direct us to your work I am fascinated by the idea of your obvious talent. But facile comments aside, Photography is a subjective medium like all the arts. I love it when people show their obvious ignorance by claiming they can do better. The work on show is a cross selection made by two highly regarded curators, who have made a strong show. The photographers are a mixture of experience and work in a variety of approaches, each of them valid. The fact that you could not relate to any of them is more of a reflection of you than the photographers work. Go and see the exhibition and speak with some personal experience of the work rather than a brief snapshot on the web, which is notorious for mis representing the visual arts. Valid criticism is always welcome but criticism from the armchair with bold statements claiming a greater talent is crass beyond forgiveness. But then what would I know? I'm only a photographer in the show who has won several international awards for my work.

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Re: Good show

tosser_inder wrote:

Saturday, 7 November 2009 at 11:03 am (UTC)

Hmm

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Re: Good show

contrastcolour wrote:

Tuesday, 27 October 2009 at 12:21 pm (UTC)

Not all are terrible though, I admit. The front image of the people's living room, the cab driver in the mirror... those two are fairly good.

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Re: Good show

flutteringwest wrote:

Tuesday, 27 October 2009 at 05:16 pm (UTC)

As single images I could see why they don't make much sense as strong photographs. There are mostly groupings, series, collections on display. To each his own. You must consider yourself to be the standard setter then!

Yes there are some clunkers in the gallery but the show was robust and that's the point of the article! I don't see how your complaints hold any weight when you haven't seen the exhibition.

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Photograhy

lsunshine23 wrote:

Tuesday, 27 October 2009 at 06:28 pm (UTC)

What makes a "good" photograph? Is it only technical brilliance, stunning beauty, incredible colours or compositions? Photography is a very varied medium with many approaches and aspects. A medium to communicate. Some photographs work on its own, some only in a series, some work well with text etc. There is conceptual photography, there is context and I would argue that it is not at all the same to see a small single image on a website when the image is actually meant to be in a series in an exhibition- it is totally out of context.
Also, photography is very subjective. There are some very well known photographers where one very well may think "I could have taken this pictures" but the crucial point sometimes is the idea, the concept, the communication of an emotion or the story that lays behind it. Many people can take fairly decent images but that is only one aspect of a bigger process.

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